Storm Manager vs Crew Surge

Storm Manager helps companies impacted by Natural Disasters manage the influx of resources needed to deal with the disaster. Storm Manager brings unmatched efficiency to the process of securing the resources needed, tracking them throughout the event, providing meals & lodging, and ensuring everyone gets paid for the prudent charges incurred to provide service. Storm Manager works with all emergency response operations including: Utilities, DOTs, Gas, Cable / Fiber, Telecom, Wildfire Fighters, Insurance Adjusters, and FEMA. The Storm Manager systems facilitates the acquiring and management of resources throughout the entire restoration event, including: Resource Activation / Acquisition Workforce Development / Crew Rosters Time / Expense Tracking, Approval, & Invoicing GPS Tracking of Resource Locations Meals & Lodging Direct Communication to Workforce Dynamic Reporting & Data Requests Digital record of all activity (time, user GPS) Contract Management (during blue-sky days) Storm Manager connects the impacted companies with their entire workforce both internal and external in real-time. Field based users use this mobile application to update their crew roster, track their time, submit their expenses, and get directions to their hotels. After major events, Storm Manager helps Utilities get the lights on quicker, DOTs clear the roads quicker, Wildfire Fighters put the fires out quicker.

A cloud-based, mobile first solution that is easy to use and deploy, Crew Surge delivers functionality that adds immediate value to both utility contractors and their utility customers. Imagine the advantage you’d gain by having the ability to: • Run availability polls to quickly mobilize the maximum number of resources • Build crews by intuitively grouping together the right complement of people, vehicles, and supervision • Seamlessly generate custom configured rosters that conform to utility customer template specifications Crew Surge eliminates hours of manual efforts that slow down response times, enabling contractors to better serve their utility customers by: • Providing timely and accurate resource commitments • Mobilizing more people • Getting them on the road faster • Providing up-to-date personnel and crew data • Sending correctly formatted rosters • And more! Improving their operations by automating manual processes and traditional bottlenecks enables contractors to build strong relationships with their utility customers, which turns into the opportunity to move up on the preferred vendor list, work more storms and make more money.